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Recent Examples of oblong
Is that oblong speck an egg sac or a flake of dandruff?
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Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2026
This factor could favor stars with more oblong orbits, which tend to be older, because younger stars with circular orbits wouldn’t have made it to our vicinity yet.
—Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2026
The most common type used for kimchi in Korea, this oblong white radish measures 5 to 8 inches.
—Maggie Meyer Glisan, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2026
The oblong coins turn tender and caramelized, slightly crisping at the edges.
—Maria Helm Sinskey, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Mar. 2026
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Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2026
This factor could favor stars with more oblong orbits, which tend to be older, because younger stars with circular orbits wouldn’t have made it to our vicinity yet.
—Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2026
The most common type used for kimchi in Korea, this oblong white radish measures 5 to 8 inches.
—Maggie Meyer Glisan, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2026
The oblong coins turn tender and caramelized, slightly crisping at the edges.
—Maria Helm Sinskey, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oblong
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The ring features a 12-carat, oval Ceylon sapphire at its center surrounded by a halo of 14 diamonds set in 18k white gold—by anyone’s eye, a beautiful piece.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
9 Mar. 2026
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Oval Glass Doors That front door with an oval glass inset?—
Angelika Pokovba,
Martha Stewart,
22 Feb. 2026
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How to ignore the rectangular stain on the wall, where an air conditioner unit had been ripped out.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
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Shop the rug in three colors and in a variety of round, rectangular, and runner shapes.—
Rachel Trujillo,
PEOPLE,
25 Apr. 2026
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About a decade ago the artist Paul Chan (no relation) began affixing fans to the bases of humanoid sculptures, made from cylindrical nylon tubes, in order to animate them.—
Dawn Chan,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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According to police, necropsy results for both of the dead dogs revealed a cylindrical obstruction, resembling a corn cob, as well as a black substance consistent with bedding material.—
Kellie Love,
Hartford Courant,
24 Apr. 2026
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The table revealed that an ovoid body—blunt nose, tapering tail—came closer to aerodynamic perfection than anything else a designer could draw.—
Bill Gourgey,
Popular Science,
29 Apr. 2026
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And the curled posture of the embryo follows an ovoid shape like that of an egg.—
Kate Wong,
Scientific American,
15 Apr. 2026
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Every bit of ground was drenched in sunlight and steaming in the heat, except for the living room that harbored the only wild population of Chittenango ovate amber snails in the world.—
Jessica Suarez Oliver Whang,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2022
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In the new images, the nebula’s buckyballs are prominent, concentrated in the spherical shell immediately around the central dying star.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
24 Apr. 2026
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The sample is a single spherical meteorite weighing 44 grams, with a dark molten outer shell.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Apr. 2026
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Nike engineered the globular Air units to be flexible and low to the ground.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
17 Apr. 2026
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The plant is easily identified by its rampant growth in the spring and its spiny globular fruit.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
16 Apr. 2026
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The remote remains unchanged, a simple black rectangle with a glossy circular navigation pad near the top.—
Will Greenwald,
PC Magazine,
29 Apr. 2026
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Many had already spent much of the second half of 2025 treading water as concerns about the timeline for earnings from AI investments, plus seemingly circular financing arrangements, took hold.—
Rob Wile,
NBC news,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Oblong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oblong. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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